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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:05:12 -0700, "rms"
<rsqui...@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

>>For a decent MMORPG, try The Secret World.   Doesn't treat you like a
>>10 year old, no subscription fees and one of the more enjoyable ones
>>I've tried.
>
>    Don't think I'll ever try these online rpgs, but did read a recent 
>review on RPS or somesuch, saying the same thing, that it was good stuff.
>
>rms 

I just came to the conclusion I'm not an MMORPG person.  This one kept
me interested longer than most, partially because the immersiveness of
the world and the fact that it's challenging to create that immersion
with "our earth, today" as a setting.  

When creating games involving spaceships and aliens, and likewise in
fantasy settings, you have science fiction or medieval environments
that have been defined already by other games and movies a thousand
times over.  In a horror setting that's based on our earth in today's
time, you have the opportunity to bring whatever element you want
(sort of a sci-fi horror element in this case) into a realm that a
typical adult can relate to.  I think they did that pretty well -- the
monsters and quests of course are not realistic but the world that
surrounds it all is enough to pull you in.

As I said, this entire genre of gaming is not something I would spend
hundreds of hours on but this is the only MMORPG I actually left
installed so I could go back and play when I wanted a MMORPG fix.  I
think it it also draws a better calibur (more mature) players than
games involving aliens or d&d settings, at least I never saw anything
too silly, only folks cooperating.